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So if you've accepted an offer at a place where you want to be, what now? Is the job search over? Do you just go back to school and pray not to be no-offered at the end of next summer? Is there anything to do between now and end of summer 2012 other than coast / gun for grades?

Anonymous User wrote:So if you've accepted an offer at a place where you want to be, what now? Is the job search over? Do you just go back to school and pray not to be no-offered at the end of next summer? Is there anything to do between now and end of summer 2012 other than coast / gun for grades?

Unless you're trying to clerk or your firm requests grades before the summer/when you start the following fall, just chill and don't fail.

Anonymous User wrote:So if you've accepted an offer at a place where you want to be, what now? Is the job search over? Do you just go back to school and pray not to be no-offered at the end of next summer? Is there anything to do between now and end of summer 2012 other than coast / gun for grades?

Unless you're trying to clerk or your firm requests grades before the summer/when you start the following fall, just chill and don't fail.

How can you find out if your firm will request grades? If your grades stay the same but don't go down, is that probably OK?

Anonymous User wrote:So if you've accepted an offer at a place where you want to be, what now? Is the job search over? Do you just go back to school and pray not to be no-offered at the end of next summer? Is there anything to do between now and end of summer 2012 other than coast / gun for grades?

Unless you're trying to clerk or your firm requests grades before the summer/when you start the following fall, just chill and don't fail.

How can you find out if your firm will request grades? If your grades stay the same but don't go down, is that probably OK?

Ask junior associates. Your ability to write an exam is, at best, tenuously related to your ability to function in a law firm. This is conjecture, albeit based upon personal experience, but even if your class rank drops by like 33%, you should be fine. Do your work, but don't stress out. I sure wish I hadn't stressed during 2L.

Anonymous User wrote:So if you've accepted an offer at a place where you want to be, what now? Is the job search over? Do you just go back to school and pray not to be no-offered at the end of next summer? Is there anything to do between now and end of summer 2012 other than coast / gun for grades?

Unless you're trying to clerk or your firm requests grades before the summer/when you start the following fall, just chill and don't fail.

How can you find out if your firm will request grades? If your grades stay the same but don't go down, is that probably OK?

Ask junior associates. Your ability to write an exam is, at best, tenuously related to your ability to function in a law firm. This is conjecture, albeit based upon personal experience, but even if your class rank drops by like 33%, you should be fine. Do your work, but don't stress out. I sure wish I hadn't stressed during 2L.

Cool, thanks. It's hard because like most law students, we probably only have 2 gears -- all out and total slack. Gonna be an interesting year...

School: Top 30Market(s): Major northeast citiesApproximate class rank: top 30%Law review: SecondaryWork experience: 2 yearsAnything else that might have an impact? (diversity, etc. or whatever, really): URM but not broadcastedScreening Interviews: 11Mass mails: 40+Callbacks received: 3Callbacks accepted: went on 2; canceled 3rdOffers w/vault ranges: 1 (not ranked)How many firms just didn't get back with you with a rejection/callback? 1 that I interviewed with, lots of MMsThank-you notes sent: post-screeners and post-CBs

School: UTMarket(s): TexasApproximate class rank: Around top 10%Law review: YesWork experience: 1 yearIP background:NoAnything else that might have an impact? (diversity, etc. or whatever, really): Grad degreeScreening Interviews: 25Mass mails: 0Callbacks received: 6Callbacks accepted: 4 (cancelled other two after recieving first two offers)Offers w/vault ranges: 1 V10 and 1 ~V50 (one of the big three in TX). Accepted both (doing split summer). How many firms just didn't get back with you with a rejection/callback? I had been dinged at one of my CB firms already and withdrew from consideration from other after offers.Thank-you notes sent: NoFurther info?: UT has a hybrid preselect/lottery system. One of the offers was from a firm I was originally an alternate with.

Very happy with how things turned out, but I was definitely a bit stressed out during the process.

School: Boalt Market(s): CA (northern and southern)Approximate class rank: Um...probably between top 10 and top 20%? Law review: Secondary journalWork experience: 1 yearIP background: NoAnything else that might have an impact? (diversity, etc. or whatever, really): Work experience that at least made for interesting interview fodder. I obviously don't have a socially acceptable way of testing this, but I think being a girl also helped.Screening Interviews: 23Mass mails: 0Callbacks received: 15Callbacks accepted: 8 (cancelled a few at different stages)Offers w/vault ranges: 4 (I think they are V50 and above, but I'm not sure. Vault rankings don't seem to matter as much for CA firms). How many firms just didn't get back with you with a rejection/callback? Eventually got all rejections from callbacks. accepted offer before I heard from two CBs.Thank-you notes sent: Yes (not sure if they are important, but it made me feel better and I'm the personality type that can be expected to send them)